Index
Intro
This unit group includes brothers, nuns, monks, religious education workers and others who provide support to ministers of religion or to a religious community and who perform certain functions associated with the practice of a religion. They may perform these duties in churches, synagogues, temples or other places of worship or in institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons.
Main Duties
The following is a summary of main duties for some occupations in this unit group:
- Assist at services of public worship and religious rites
- Provide religious education, spiritual guidance and moral support to members of a religious community
- Administer programs providing food, clothing and shelter.
Employment Requirements
- Requirements range from completion of secondary school education to a university undergraduate degree, depending on the particular occupation and religion.
- There may be other employment requirements depending on the particular occupation and religion.
All Titles
- animator – spiritual guidance
- brother/sister – religionbrother – religion, sister – religion
- cantor
- Christian Science nurse – non-medical
- Christian science practitioner
- Christian science worker
- church worker
- deacon
- deaconess
- exegete
- faith healer
- gospel worker
- hazzan
- healer, faith
- home mission worker – religion
- missionary
- mohel
- monk
- mother superior/religious superior
- novice – religion
- nun
- panthee
- pastoral animator
- postulant
- ragi
- religious education worker
- religious superior – religious community
- religious superior/mother superior
- Salvation Army captain
- Salvation Army field worker
- Salvation Army worker
- sister/brother – religion
Exclusions
- Professional occupations in religion (4154)